Direction: Mark Robson

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Mark Robson. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


The Harder They Fall

1956 · Movie · 109 min. · United States

Direction Mark Robson

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Rod Steiger · Jan Sterling · Mike Lane

Plot Jobless sportswriter Eddie Willis is hired by corrupt fight promoter Nick Benko to promote his current protégé, an unknown Argentinian boxer named Toro Moreno. Although Moreno is a hulking giant,...

7.6

4K votes

7.6

4K votes

Champion

1949 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Mark Robson

Cast Kirk Douglas · Marilyn Maxwell · Arthur Kennedy · Paul Stewart

Plot An unscrupulous boxer fights his way to the top, but eventually alienates all of the people who helped him on the way up. One of the all-time great boxing movies....

7.3

2K votes

7.3

2K votes

The Prize

1963 · Movie · 136 min. · United States

7.2

5K votes

7.2

5K votes

Peyton Place

1957 · Movie · 162 min. · United States

Direction Mark Robson

Cast Lana Turner · Lee Philips · Lloyd Nolan · Arthur Kennedy

Plot A story set in a small New England village whose peaceful facade hides love and passion, scandal and hypocrisy. Allison, a beautiful high school student and aspiring writer, struggles to...

6.8

765 votes

6.8

765 votes

The Inn of the Sixth Happiness

1958 · Movie · 158 min. · United States

Direction Mark Robson

Cast Ingrid Bergman · Curd Jürgens · Robert Donat · Michael David

Plot All her life Englishwoman Gladys Aylward knew that China was the place where she belonged. Not qualified to be sent there as a missionary, Gladys works as a domestic to...

6.6

939 votes

6.6

939 votes

The Seventh Victim

1943 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction Mark Robson

Cast Tom Conway · Jean Brooks · Isabel Jewell · Kim Hunter

Plot Mary Gibson (Kim Hunter) travels to New York City to find her missing sister Jacqueline (Jean Brooks). In her search she discovers that Jacqueline has become involved with a Satanist...

6.4

830 votes

6.4

830 votes

My Foolish Heart

1949 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Mark Robson

Cast Dana Andrews · Susan Hayward · Kent Smith · Lois Wheeler

Plot After a long absence, Mary Jane visits her schoolfriend Eloise, and Eloise's daughter Ramona. Eloise drinks too much and is unhappily married to Lew Wengler. Eloise falls asleep and remembers...

6.3

123 votes

6.3

123 votes

Von Ryan's Express

1965 · Movie · 117 min. · United States

Direction Mark Robson

Cast Frank Sinatra · Trevor Howard · Raffaella Carrà · Sergio Fantoni

Plot Von Ryan's Express is an excellent war adventure set in Italy during WWII. The movie is about a group of prisoners attempting to escape to freedom by taking over the...

6.3

853 votes

6.3

853 votes

From the Terrace

1960 · Movie · 144 min. · United States

Direction Mark Robson

Cast Paul Newman · Joanne Woodward · Ina Balin · Myrna Loy

Plot Based on the novel by John O'Hara, From the Terrace tells the tale of Alfred Eaton, a man whose marriage is crumbling from neglect as he climbs the ladder of...

6.3

775 votes

6.3

775 votes

Bedlam

1946 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction Mark Robson

Cast Boris Karloff · Anna Lee · Billy House · Richard Fraser

Plot London, 18thcentury. Nell Bowen, the spirited protege of rich Lord Mortimer, becomes interested in the conditions of notorious St. Mary's of Bethlehem Asylum (Bedlam). Encouraged by the Quaker Hannay, she...

6.2

516 votes

6.2

516 votes

Edge of Doom

1950 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Mark Robson

Cast Dana Andrews · Farley Granger · Joan Evans · Robert Keith

Plot A poor and alienated young man (Farley Granger) who is driven to murder when a priest refuses to give is deceased mother an expensive funeral.

6.2

156 votes

6.2

156 votes

I Want You

1951 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction Mark Robson

Cast Dana Andrews · Dorothy McGuire · Farley Granger · Peggy Dow

Plot In 1950, life as usual in a middle-American town. Cold War paranoia is beginning; the young men's biggest concern is the draft board and deferments from the peacetime army. Then...

6.2

35 votes

6.2

35 votes

Isle of the Dead

1945 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction Mark Robson

Cast Boris Karloff · Ellen Drew · Marc Cramer · Katherine Emery

Plot On a Greek island during the 1912 war, several people are trapped by quarantine for the plague. If that isn't enough worry, one of the people, a superstitious old peasant...

6.0

397 votes

6.0

397 votes

Trial

1955 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Mark Robson

Cast Glenn Ford · Dorothy McGuire · Arthur Kennedy · John Hodiak

Plot The story of a murder trial where a Mexican boy is accused of the death of a Caucasian girl. The two-faced attorney (Arthur Kennedy) who takes the boy's case is...

6.0

136 votes

6.0

136 votes

Lost Command

1966 · Movie · 129 min. · United States

Direction Mark Robson

Cast Anthony Quinn · Alain Delon · George Segal · Michèle Morgan

Plot Lost Command is based on Jean Larteguy's novel "The Centurians" with Anthony Quinn portraying the main character Lieutenant Colonel Raspeguy. The film opens with Raspeguy and his paratrooper battalion fighting...

5.9

399 votes

5.9

399 votes

Shock

1969 · Movie · 108 min. · United States

Direction Mark Robson

Cast Carol White · Paul Burke · Mala Powers · Scott Hylands

Plot A mentally disturbed man stalks a woman who had once aborted the child he had fathered.

5.8

23 votes

5.8

23 votes

Phffft

1954 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Mark Robson

Cast Judy Holliday · Jack Lemmon · Jack Carson · Kim Novak

Plot After eight years of marriage, Robert and Nina divorce. He takes up with his womanising Navy buddy Charlie Nelson while she looks to her interfering mother for guidance. Both start...

5.8

109 votes

5.8

109 votes

The Ghost Ship

1943 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Mark Robson

Cast Richard Dix · Russell Wade · Edith Barrett · Ben Bard

Plot Tom Merriam signs on the ship Altair as third officer under Captain Stone. At first things look good, Stone sees Merriam as a younger version of himself and Merriam sees...

5.8

357 votes

5.8

357 votes

Roughshod

1949 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Mark Robson

Cast Robert Sterling · Gloria Grahame · Claude Jarman Jr. · John Ireland

Plot Wrangler Clay Phillips and his young brother are taking horses to Sonora when they come across four dancehall girls heading the same way, stuck with a wrecked buggy. He takes...

5.7

41 votes

5.7

41 votes

The Little Hut

1957 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Mark Robson

Cast Ava Gardner · Stewart Granger · David Niven · Jack Lambert

Plot Three persons, Susan and Philip Ashlow and Henry Brittingham-Brett are washed ashore on a deserted island after a shipwreck. Henry is Susan's lover. Since the island is filled with things...

5.7

346 votes

5.7

346 votes